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The short tale about ASAT anti-satellite weapons.


Kimmo Huosionmaa

The developing ASAT-weapons is a little-known thing in space programs. The newest technology is actually developed for microwave bombs, which would destroy the targets very sharply. The systems are acting different ways but the main idea is to terminate the satellite by using the method, which keeps its core in one piece. That eliminates the debris from that trajectory, and it would save the own satellites from the damages. In the 1960s there were testing the nuclear weapons, which will make all satellites, what is at the orbiting trajectory unable to operate, but the problems of the plasma caused that this kind of weapons was not created, because they would destroy both side satellites, and that would mean end of the GPS systems and other things.

The developing the anti-satellite weapons have been beginning from the cold-war era. During that time there were made ASAT test by the Soviet Union and the USA by using kinetic energy weapons, what based satellites, that were collated with together. And some experiments were made by using machine guns and that kind of things. The recoilless weapons like bazookas and other kinds of things are also tested because the recoil of the machine guns are causing that the trajectory of the satellite would be disturbed.

And that's is a very problematic thing in ASAT missions. One of the most interesting things about the weapons that are developed for the killer satellites is a so-called centrifuge gun, what will be the rotating layer, where is dropped the metal balls. The layer would throw the metal ball with speed, which is the same as the layer will rotate. This kind of weapons is very interesting because they would be installed in the other satellites and use for the self-defense systems. Another very interesting solution would be the "Trophy" system, what is installed in the tanks, and this system can be used in the satellites as the rotating gun turret, what will destroy incoming objects and also it can be used in the offensive purposes.
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